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From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP 
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But in the current case of 2.0.5, possibly the biggest gotcha is the new 
disk partitioning / slicing. Upgrading (which I would love to see) 
requires that the underlying disk structure and partion sizes are correct 
and large enough to hold the new upgrade. 

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On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> Then you get into the thornier issues:  /etc/rc* and /etc/netstart.
> From time to time, things need to be added to these file, and you want
> to preserve, as much as possible, the configuration that has been
> made here.
> 
> To sum up some very rough ideas:
> 	1) You need to replace some binaries
> 	2) You need to patch some files
> 	3) You need to convert other files
> 
> This doesn't address the "dual boot" issue.  In that case, you'd want
> to be able to say "Install the system onto that other device, and use
> my current system as a template."  It also doesn't address the "ooop,
> that was stupid, I want to go back now." either.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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